A buddy of mine just forwarded this story my way. It gives some insight as to what may have triggered the events.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twitter-spotify-reddit/ -----Original Message----- From: Outages [mailto:outages-boun...@outages.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan via Outages Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 12:27 PM To: outages@outages.org Subject: Re: [outages] Dyn outage continuing Dear colleagues, On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:14:34PM -0400, Jim Popovitch via Outages wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore via Outages > <outages@outages.org> wrote: > > Let’s all be clear that Dyn has to be in the top 10 DNS > > infrastructures on the planet. Possibly the largest that sells DNS as a > > service. > > Which part of Dyn? To be clear, according to https://www.dynstatus.com/ (which is the place you will actually find out about Dyn's status), this attack is against the Dyn managed DNS infrastructure, which is the anycast deployment. I'm not in a position to disclose details about the attack just now (partly because I'm leaving the people doing the mitigation alone so they can focus on that rather than providing detailed attack reports), but this is a significant attack. The communications people at Dyn are actively keeping the status pages accurate, so if you want to know what's going on the URI above is the place to look. I hope this is helpful to make clear what infrastructure people are talking about. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn asulli...@dyn.com _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast Ltd, an innovator in Software as a Service (SaaS) for business. Providing a safer and more useful place for your human generated data. Specializing in; Security, archiving and compliance. To find out more visit the Mimecast website.
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